This project is about a large rehearsal room or a small auditorium. It arises as a need to constantly rehearse music, and as a space that can receive different sizes of audiences. That is why it was originally called “Music Room”, but as city normative implied other more complex requirements for this name, it remained as the “Music House”. Finally I put “da” instead of “de” to take advantage of the algorithm when people search for the beautiful “Casa da Música” by Koolhaas in Porto.
Now about the scope of acoustics in the project, the music room does avoid parallel planes to prevent sound rebound, both in the plan and in section. Diffraction of sound in these planes are reached in different ways, to achieve a clean and precise sound, with wood textures and curtains that stop their course in the vertical elements, although they were finally discarded due to lack of budget.
The project has a grid, it is designed according to the SIP panel module of 488 x 122 cm and 244 x 122 cm, but at the same time it has a certain formal freedom. What happens is that this freedom is lodged in the oblique, and the latter is nothing more than a reading of the grid module. From a vertex of the panel to one module more or one module less. So in plan we have seven panels of 488 * 122 cm, whose perimeter slopes inward on the eastern side, and towards the exterior on the south side. On the east side it is convex and on the south side it is concave. This southern convexity is intended to function as a small “acoustic shell” determining the location of a “stage” and therefore the direction of sound in the situation of an intimate concert.
In one of the planes that builds the eastern convexity, an orthogonal volume is attached and regulated by the module, measuring 488 x 244 cm, which schematically houses the instruments. It is also made as a safe box, due to the value of all the objects that are kept inside. Its length and position also allow a service door to be opened to the south, which can serve both for the circulation of instruments and performers at the time of a performance.
On the other plane there is a large window, and perpendicularly a 244 x 244 kitchenette. At the north end of that diagonal plane there is also a 244 x 244 bathroom attached, but because it is not perpendicular to the diagonal plane, but rather to the rehearsal space, an interesting void is produced between them to naturally illuminate the bathroom without compromising its privacy. For its part, the window, located to the east, allows the morning light to be received through the patio that defines the volumes to the west, and where a beautiful tree was planted.